Abused patience turns to fury.
— Thomas Fuller
Who shall resist Anti-Christ when he comes if we show such patience towards the vices and crimes of his precursors? By such leniency, we encourage kings to become tyrants and tempt them to withdraw every privilege and all jurisdiction from the Churches.
— Thomas Becket
Editing is a lot about patience and discipline and just banging away at something, turning off the machine and going home at night because you're frustrated and depressed, and then coming back in the morning to try again.
— Thelma Schoonmaker
I've no patience for people who say they never watch television. It's a great way to keep in touch with popular culture, and it's important that children can relate to what their schoolmates are watching.
— Terry Wogan
A career in showbiz is like a distance run. You have to have patience and pace yourself.
— Tate Donovan
If you list the qualities that we consider feminine, they are patience, understanding, empathy, supportiveness, a desire to nurture. Our culture tells us those are feminine traits, but they're really just human.
— Sydney Pollack
What separates old from the young is experience and patience.
— Sudha Murty
I always tell up-and-coming DJs you have to really love what you do and find that interest to drive you. It requires so much attention to detail, and it takes up a lot of your time. You hear a song, and there are so many little pieces that make that song work. It requires a lot of patience, diligence and resilience.
— Steve Aoki
A statesman wants courage and a statesman wants vision; but believe me, after six months' experience, he wants first, second, third and all the time - patience.
— Stanley Baldwin
I couldn't be a director because I couldn't put up with the actors. I don't have the patience. Why, I'd probably kill the actors. Not to mention some of the beautiful actresses.
— Spencer Tracy
Patience for me is a big thing. Patience with others. Patience with the way the world is evolving. I have a sense of urgency because I want to help out so much.
— Sophie Gregoire Trudeau
Humility is attentive patience.
— Simone Weil
Face-to-face conversation unfolds slowly. It teaches patience.
— Sherry Turkle
I think film requires a lot more patience and concentration and each day you're keeping the entire picture in your head throughout a two to three month film shoot. Whereas TV, especially half hour, is like doing a play a week or live theater.
— Shawnee Smith
I've learned patience.
— Shannon Briggs
It's amazing, all of the ways that having kids has changed me. I'm a much less selfish person because of them, and compared to who I was before, my patience level seems infinite.
— Scott Foley
For those of us learning the way to financial serenity and solvency, the envelope system teaches prudence, patience, and perseverance. You can only spend what you have.
— Sarah Ban Breathnach
As I pass it, I feel as if I saw a dear old mother, sweet in her weakness, trembling at the approach of her dissolution, but not appealing to me against the inevitable, rather endeavouring to reassure me by her patience, and pointing to a hopeful future.
— Thomas Edward Brown
To bear with patience wrongs done to oneself is a mark of perfection, but to bear with patience wrongs done to someone else is a mark of imperfection and even of actual sin.
— Thomas Aquinas
I'm not a person who believes in the great difference between women and men as editors. But I do think that quality is key. We're very good at organizing and discipline and patience, and patience is 50 per cent of editing. You have to keep banging away at something until you get it to work. I think women are maybe better at that.
I learned patience. I'm not a real patient guy, but with me trusting in my coach, my managers and my team, I just trust the process and just continue to stay patient and just follow suit.
— Terence Crawford
Balance takes work. Lots of it. There is no endpoint in balance, no goal, no finalization. Balance requires practice, patience, and - most importantly - movement. We often get stuck in our ways and form habits based on our fears and driven by our insecurities.
— Tara Stiles
There is something good in all seeming failures. You are not to see that now. Time will reveal it. Be patient.
— Swami Sivananda
Right-wing extremism is all about patience. That is, until it makes its move, and then it is sudden and explosive.
— Steven Weber
No, you're not allowed to be bossy when you're married. You have to learn compromise, and compassion and patience.
— Star Jones
I think every war certainly wears on national will and national patience, particularly a counterinsurgency.
— Stanley A. McChrystal
My sister was the glamourous one and her movies portrayed her beauty and glamour. As a person, she has enormous patience and has single-handedly supported my mother and my siblings. I have always admired her loyalty to the family.
— Sowcar Janaki
I would say I'm a boss who's learning, and I hope people have the patience for the fact that I'm learning along the way because that's a tough thing.
— Sophia Amoruso
And so, at the age of thirty, I had successively disgraced myself with three fine institutions, each of which had made me free of its full and rich resources, had trained me with skill and patience, and had shown me nothing but forbearance and charity when I failed in trust.
— Simon Raven
Indeed, this life is a test. It is a test of many things - of our convictions and priorities, our faith and our faithfulness, our patience and our resilience, and in the end, our ultimate desires.
— Sheri L. Dew
The only thing you have to have is patience and an attitude that you aren't ever going to give up.
— Shawn Michaels
The principal reason for the universe's poker face is that its constituents are far away. Stars careen through space, and galaxies spin at speeds thousands of times faster than a jet plane. But given their distance, you'd need the patience of Job to notice much change in their appearance or position.
— Seth Shostak
When generation changes,, things get outdated but then if you have talent and patience, you bounce back.
— Satish Kaushik
I haven't got the patience for small talk, although I once saw a woman standing on her own in the corner, and I realised it was Monica Lewinsky, and I had the nicest evening with her - she was charming.
— Sandi Toksvig
Endurance is patience concentrated.
— Thomas Carlyle
All men commend patience, although few are willing to practice it.
— Thomas a Kempis
Hope is patience with the lamp lit.
— Tertullian
When, President Obama, do you mean to cease abusing our patience? How long is that madness of yours still to mock us? When is there to be an end to that unbridled audacity of yours swaggering about as it does now?
— Ted Cruz
I think I have more patience now than I did in the past.
— T. Boone Pickens
Talent is required, but much of writing is a matter of craft, which develops with time, attention, patience and practice, like playing an instrument or learning to dance.
— Susan Wiggs
Americans' distrust of the conspicuously intellectual - a habit we learned, I suppose, on the frontier, but which remains a feature of the national character - has the virtue of puncturing the pretentious and exposing the fake, but it may also have impaired American listeners' patience for music that is especially complex or austere.
— Steven Stucky
Let us wait in patience for the Christ-child whose own life depended on the lives of Mary and Joseph. The Word of God was made flesh. He came so that we might experience the fullness of time.
— Stanley Hauerwas
You must first have a lot of patience to learn to have patience.
— Stanislaw Jerzy Lec
Patience is necessary, and one cannot reap immediately where one has sown.
— Soren Kierkegaard
The test of good manners is to be patient with the bad ones.
— Solomon Ibn Gabirol
My dad said to me, 'Work hard and be patient.' It was the best advice he ever gave me. You have to put the hours in.
— Simon Cowell
After four years of experience - and especially after the match with Daniel Bryan at WrestleMania 27 for the U.S. title that ended up being a dark match - you've got to realize that patience is a huge key in this game.
— Sheamus
Patience doesn't mean making a pact with the devil of denial, ignoring our emotions and aspirations. It means being wholeheartedly engaged in the process that's unfolding, rather than ripping open a budding flower or demanding a caterpillar hurry up and get that chrysalis stage over with.
— Sharon Salzberg
Things that are uncomfortable and demand time and effort and patience we can switch off to. And I am intrigued by that concept. It's about human tolerance.
— Sean Dyche
Patience is key. You can't get selfish, and that's the number one thing I've learned at WWE. The world continues to go round, and I just knew - given the right opportunity and the right moment - that the world would know I was good, but now the world knows that I'm great.
— Sasha Banks
